Article March 13, 1926 Issue

"The panoply of Love"

FAITH HOLMES HYERS

"Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you," says our Leader in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 571). How many times have we, as Christian Scientists, been grateful for those words, when the frequent temptation has come to shrink before the onslaughts of evil, to dread the persecutions which have always attended the progress of truth, to fear the voice of the devil,—evil belief,—which cries out "because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

Those whose eyes have been opened to the methods of evil realize that human hatred means not merely an occasional evil thought purposely directed through personal enmity, but that it may also signify the supposititious strength of the world's united belief in material force, the sensual lure of material pleasures, the submission to the supposed necessity of sin, sickness, and death. Human hatred is the red dragon which tries to devour the spiritual idea, and which will eventually be "cast ... into outer darkness," but must be seen here and now for the impostor it is.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed. The understanding of the methods and claims of evil brings a corresponding responsibility toward attaining the position where human hatred cannot reach us. "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you," the promise reads. As Christian Scientists, are we constantly alert to the qualification of this promise? Are we clearly conscious of what it means to be clothed in "the panoply of Love"?

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